About the "pandering" to international audiences... Give me a break! A Good Day to Die Hard was a slice of good old 'Murrikan paranoia and acted as if the Cold War never ended. It used its Russian characters as cartoonish antagonists and did nothing that would remotely enchant Russian viewers because of any supposed relatability. I'm not Russian, by the way, but this is quite obvious for most people outside of North America.

Talking about pandering, if anything Hollywood has - despite the growing and incredible importance of the global audience - been passing off much more conservative US propaganda-reeking films at a staggering rate during the last few years (including last year). Seriously: Red Dawn, Olympus Has Fallen, Captain America, all Iron Mans (blatant and even confirmed Ayn Randian propaganda), Argo and its horrifying revisionism/disrespect to every single country not called "United States" involved in the film, Zero Dark Thirty (again with some conservative-flavored revisionism), GI Joe: Retaliation, Taken 2, Inglourious Basterds (no, it's not the "irreverence" or the "revenge fantasy"; it's that disgusting sound of America jacking off to itself and/or another one of its accomplishments whether said accomplishment actually happened or not), the ultra-romanticized Lincoln which leaves out nearly all of the unsavory parts regarding Lincoln's personal/political reasons for and indecisiveness regarding trying to get the 13th Amendment passed or not, etc. etc. It's astounding and the trend seems to be here to stay for at least another year. Hopefully Hollywood execs will eventually feel it in their wallets that the global market ain't all that pleased with America's BS. I'd be utterly ashamed of my country if I lived in the US - but I do come from a culture where anything close to nationalism is met with self-deprecating laughter.

As for the execs possibly wanting to shoot movies in different locations as a form of pandering to those audiences... That's laughable.